How a screenwriting career can lead to money is a question I have been asked countless times during my long journey helming Raindance Film Festival. Often screenwriters have the idea that they can win a lottery by selling their script to Hollywood. But how much money do you really think you could make by selling […]
The lovely Emily from Toronto just called and asked how she , an actor, could break into filmmaking. She’s studied acting, She’s got a day job in marketing. And she’s got some experience in producing.
You’ve made a film – congratulations. Are you hitting film festival brick walls? Every year about this time I start getting emails from filmmakers complaining about their treatment at the hands of film festival programmers who have skipped over their film. There’s even expensive professional advisers who train disgruntled filmmakers how to do better with […]
It’s soon time for painful lessons of independent film here at Raindance. Let me explain. On the Labor day weekend in America (Labour Day if you are Canadian like me), we finalise the schedule for the Raindance Film Festival which means that a lot of filmmakers get let down because we just can’t show everything […]
Lack of money are not the the main compromises low budget filmmakers make. It is once the film is made that the competiiton for eueballs, distribution and more importantly money to repay investors.
April 4, 1992. This date was one of the most significant dates in my life – and still is today. It was the launch of the very first Raindance training event. And it was the 2-Day Film School presented by the legendary Dov S-S Simens. And it was the birth of Raindance. Over the next […]
If you’re anything like me you are quite indecisive, searching aimlessly for what the hell to do in the future to make that dream of sitting in a cinema watching a film you made, your friends and family gathered round you telling you how incredible the film is and how much of a great filmmaker you […]
I spend hours on Zoom these days with many of our online Postgraduate Film Degree students. I guess I have many annoying habits. For example, I wear headphones and engage in all sorts of debates about independent film-making in all its varied and changing forms. I’ve just hung up with a prospective student in Thailand, […]
Of all the painful steps in the movie business, probably the most painful is making your first movie. Playing your film for the very first time to an empty room. Unless of course, it’s screening to a roomful of people who laugh in the wrong places. Or shaking hands with well-wishers who avoid direct eye-contact […]
With major film festivals being extremely competitive, you might think that after getting accepted into a selection of festivals, the hardest job is done. Your film will get seen and hopefully that will bring all the indie film buzz you wish for. But now you need to Market Your Festival Screening. I’ll use Raindance as […]
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